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Finally, P1WiMAX was launched in my home country. Checkout on their website here: http://www.p1wimax.com. First thing come to my mind is their packages and pricing. The packages price sound reasonable which offers start from RM 59 per month with 400kps (exclude modem). Compare to other ISP provider, the price is not too expensive. The promotional package offer 1.2MBps with RM 99 per month (Free modem). I think this is good deal while the speed and technology here is still fall behind compare to other countries.

The next thing is the coverage. I spent 20 mins to check out the coverage area at their website but can’t find anything. There are broken link on the coverage page. Then, I browse through their company website p1.com.my and found the link here: http://www.p1.com.my/Wimax/aspx/wimaxmap.aspx Frankly, I think this page is not user-friendly at all. Try to search on location and road name; you always get record not found. You need to enter properly keyword into their respective field. Try to browse and zoom into their map; it zoom in into very detail map. It is difficult for us to pan and view other location. I just do a quick look on the coverage area, not all places are covered. Even in KLCC area, you will see a lot of blank spot not covered. Eg. Wisma Hong Leong, Shangri-la hotel and etc.

Personally, I don’t it is a good time to get it now since it is still new and not many places are covered. Anyway, this is a good start. Hopefully, it will bring more pressures to other ISP providers to improve their services and offer lower cost to consumer!

Welcome to bronios.com! This is the new blog for me to share out my tips. Some of the archives articles are move from yyTech blog (http://yyonline.wordpress.com). I will continue to share out my experience in SharePoint, .Net, SQL, MS BI, Gadgets and Collaboration. Happy reading!

Recently, I got problem sign in to msn messenger (Key port -80048820 error), hotmail.com website and the internet speed is not stable on certain website. I am not sure what was going on to my ISP provider (StreamyX). It works fine previously. I got no problem accessing it in my working place. I got some friends staying nearby also having this problem.  After debugging with some try & error methods, I manage to solve this problem. This case may not apply to everyone depends on the network setting. For my case, I got an ADSL modem (with router) and D-Link Dir300 Wireless Access Point. Here are the steps:

• First I try to change the MTU setting from 1500 to 1362. Log in to D-Link administration system, click on Internet Setup, manual Internet connection setup, and change MTU setting under “Dynamic IP (DHCP) Internet Connection Type”. Then, restart your router, modem and PC. (It works for me for one night. After that, I try to use it on the next day, it give me the same error again).
• Second method, log in to D-Link administration system, click on Internet Setup, manual Internet connection setup and checked Access Point Mode. Restart your router, modem and PC. (Note, this will change your device to Access Point Mode and disable NAT mode – Get DHCP IP from your modem router.)

I hope these tips can give some hints to those who are having the same problem. It works for me! Good luck.

Is there any form of notification being sent to the submitter of the page?
Yes, default approval workflow does have the following email notification

1. Requesting approval email notification
2. Email notification to contributor regarding approved / rejected pages from the approval.

Here are the steps:

1. Outgoing email settings must be configured at the Central Admin à Operations. Without this, there won’t be any option to send notification email in the list setting.
2. User profile must be configured and imported, with user email information included.
3. Please create a new Task list when using default approval workflow, using existing “Workflow Task” list, email notification will not be send out.  If you are using existing workflow task list, on this list setting >  advanced setting > Send e-mail when ownership is assigned ? change it to NO and wait for 5 minutes then change it back to YES then you will be able to see those email notification. The other alternative is DO NOT USE the default “Workflow Tasks”, create a new “Tasks” list

*Special thanks to RC, Abi, SC and LJ.

This post is contributed by my colleague, Abi. I would like to share out here since it is very usefully.

If you have MOSS users in different AD domains, and for dunno wat reason you can’t seem to search these users in the MOSS’s PeoplePicker, run a stsadm command to add the information about the those domains where the user is located.
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“We went to SSP and clicked on User Profiles and Properties under the “User Profiles and My Sites” section and then clicked on View Import Connections and then added domain1.company.com to the Import Connections list and I started a full import. It completed in about an hour and imported users from the domain1 domain.
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The problem we run into is that when I go to add them to a site to give them access, we are unable to find the users by using People Picker. We only find users from the domain0 domain which the moss server is on. ”
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I found out that by default People Picker can only find people in the resource domain - the domain that MOSS servers are in. For other domains/forests, you’ll need to run the following command:
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Stsadm.exe –o setproperty –pn peoplepicker-searchadforests –pv <list of forests or domains> -url <webapp>

Official MS site:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263318.aspx

Some examples:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/18/multi-forest-cross-forest-people-picker-peoplepicker-searchadcustomquery.aspx  
• http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/02/26/people-picker-in-moss-2007-can-t-find-people-in-non-default-domains.aspx

This post let you add another user to manage SharePoint SharedServices (SSP). http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2007/08/06/give-a-user-access-to-the-ssp.aspx

* Thanks to Abi for her sharing on this post.

First, there is a long post describe how to setup this features. http://aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2007/09/Indexing-and-Searching-PDFs-in-MOSS-2007.aspx.

Here are some steps need to be aware of:

• To have PDF icon in the doc lib, you still need to manually copy and paste the pdf icon image into the TEMPLATE > IMAGES folder, and map the image file with the file type in the DOCICON.XML file (in TEMPLATE > XML folder).
• To crawl contents of PDF files, we need to install Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0 (download free).
• Add new file type (.pdf) in your search setting. The settings is under central admin > Shared Service Administration > Search Settings > File Types
  /ssp/admin/_layouts/managefiletypes.aspx

A feature that enable a field to pick a value from a SharePoint list, made available at CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/SP2007LookupFields I get this from my colleague, S.C. I would like to share out here and take it as my own bookmark as well.

I am currently working in a consultant company offers MS solution in my home country. We split in to several groups base on our skills and experience. Each of the group will focus on certain technology such as MS CRM, Axapta, Business Intelligence, SharePoint, .net development and etc. I am in the SharePoint and .net development team. Recently, I got chance to work in MS Business intelligence like SSAS, SSRS, BSM and the latest MS Performance Point Server 2007. Hence, I seldom post much articles on SharePoint. However, I got some colleagues actively working in SharePoint and always share their problem and solution among our team. So, I plan to put these useful posts in to this blog as well. Just to share out and for my own reference too. Check out the posts soon!

* Special thanks to SC, Abi, LJ and RC who share out their problem and solution. I will put in their full name if they agree to do so

I come across some problems in Reporting Services 2005 in SharePoint integration mode when using Navigation - Jump to URL. Here are some strange behaviors on the problem:

1. The link won’t work if you link to a page/item inside a SharePoint List.

2. The link is OK if you link to invalid page/item in a SharePoint List (invalid item name but valid path)

3. The link is OK if you link to other site like http://www.microsoft.com or http://www.ajaxworkspace.com

I tried googling around but can’t find any solid solution. But I found out that we can use JavaScript as a workaround to solve this issue. Replace your Jump to URL format from:

= “http://servername/sitename/documentlist/pagename.aspx”

With

= “javascript:window.location.href= ‘http://servername/sitename/documentlist/pagename.aspx ‘;”

It works for me!

P/s: Does anybody know where to find the restriction rules for error “Other restrictions apply. (rsInvalidItemPath)” in order to construct a valid URL path for reporting services?